Kari Jormakka practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Kari Jormakka as Finnish architect.
Kari Jormakka was born at Helsinki in 1959. His recorded nationality is Finland. He trained at University of Helsinki and Helsinki University of Technology.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as art historian, architect and architectural historian.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Finland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Kari Jormakka died in 2013, aged 54. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at University of Helsinki and Helsinki University of Technology
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